sapless
Speech parts
1. sapless - Adjective
2. sapless - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Destitute of sap; not juicy.
Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Show all synonymsAntonyms
Show all antonymsAnagrams
Examples
Weak withering age no rigid law forbids, With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play.
Being come to flood and fullness now, the tide Is risen in mine as in the sea's own heart To tempest and to triumph. Not for nought Am I that wild wife's bridegroom - old and hoar, Not sapless yet nor soulless.
it wont be long now it won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone.
a feeble old woman
her body looked sapless
the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks